April 27, 2007: Victim called 911: 'I'm gonna kill somebody'

FLINT - The two police officers involved in a fatal shooting of a resident April 20 were expected to return to duty today.

The officers, however, will not return to patrol duties until the shooting investigation is complete.

Both were placed on paid administrative leave after shooting Jo Ann Burgett, 46, several times at the Shady Acres mobile home park.

Police said Burgett was armed with a knife and refused repeated orders from the officers to drop the weapon as she approached them.

The officers had been called to the park by Burgett, according to a 911 tape released by the city. Near the beginning of the tape, she told a 911 operator, "I'm gonna kill somebody if somebody don't take care of me."

"I'm gonna hurt somebody," Burgett said at another point.

Burgett told the operator she wanted to go to jail and repeated that she was going to hurt someone.

"I don't want to hurt 'em," said Burgett.

On Thursday, the Flint police union renewed its calls for City Councilwoman Carolyn Sims to resign over comments she made earlier this week, calling the shooting a "senseless murder."